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Review
As with Undercover Agent, I’d describe this game as solid and functional, but nothing spectacular.
Ratings War takes place in a cyberpunk setting, although this has little impact on the plot and story. Apart from your own upgrades and tech, we see very little impact of cybernetics on other characters, and the setting doesn’t seem much different from Los Angeles in 2015. As far as I can tell, it’s largely an excuse to give your character some fancy powers for the sake of the plot.
After a few painful scenes where your character is literally and metaphorically beaten up (including getting canned from your old job), another news company offers you a job, some fancy tech and another chance to prove yourself. This takes you through a few investigative segments where you talk with a few witnesses, before you slowly enter the belly of the beast, where the plot thickens and another round of beatings (literal and metaphorical) await. Minus a few parts which didn’t add up or felt contrived, the entire crime ring plot is fairly interesting, with a good number of twists and turns.
I ended the game by trying to pick some option between telling the truth and selling my soul to the villain, and ended up with a moderately good ending. While the some of the final scenes felt a bit messy, I still left satisfied.
The romance interest in the game was something which I surprisingly enjoyed. She was a fairly likable character, even if not an extremely deep one, and this was one part which I actually liked.
Overall, it’s a solid entry, just not a particularly exceptional one. If you like investigative journalism stories, this might be your thing. But if you’re here because of the cyberpunk tag, you should probably look elsewhere.
